RESUMO Este caso de ensino destina-se ao uso em cursos de graduação e pós-graduação de administração pública e administração de empresas, em disciplinas que tratem do tema sustentabilidade. Podem ser trabalhados os seguintes tópicos: desenvolvimento sustentável, tripé da sustentabilidade, gestão de partes interessadas e engajamento de atores sociais. O caso narra como o FGVces (Centro de Estudos de Sustentabilidade, da FGV Eaesp) e a IFC (International Finance Corporation, do Banco Mundial) realizaram um projeto voltado para o desenvolvimento sustentável da Amazônia. O resultado foi a criação de 25 diretrizes para a realização de grandes obras na região. O caso foca o término da primeira fase, momento no qual os líderes do projeto refletem sobre o caminho percorrido e o desafio para implementação das diretrizes. Sua discussão permite aos estudantes imergir nos dilemas relacionados ao desenvolvimento sustentável, discutir os desafios relacionados à condução de um projeto que envolve múltiplas partes interessadas, e refletir sobre a melhor forma de implantação. O objetivo é que os estudantes incorporem a premissa de desenvolvimento sustentável às suas decisões, e que sejam capazes de identificar os dilemas inerentes à materialização deste conceito e de analisar prós e contras de diferentes caminhos.

ABSTRACT This teaching case is intended for use in undergraduate and graduate courses in public administration and business administration, in subjects that deal with the theme of sustainability. The following topics can be worked on: the triple bottom line, sustainable development, stakeholder management, and engagement of social actors. The case narrates how FGVces (Center for Sustainability Studies, from FGV Eaesp) and IFC (International Finance Corporation, from the World Bank) carried out a project aimed at the sustainable development of the Amazon. The result was the creation of 25 guidelines for the execution of large projects in the region. The case focuses on the end of the first phase, at which point the project leaders reflect on the path taken and the challenge for implementing the guidelines. Its discussion allows students to immerse themselves in dilemmas related to sustainable development, discuss the dilemmas and challenges related to conducting a project that involves multiple stakeholders, and reflect on the best form of implementation. The objective is for the students to incorporate the premise of sustainable development in their decisions, to be able to identify the dilemmas inherent to the materialization of this concept, and to weigh the pros and cons of different pathways.

ABSTRACT Research on supply network transparency is incipient and focused on how focal firms can improve monitoring of supplier misbehavior. This narrow focus has restricted advancements in the topic. Our research, firstly, shifts the focus from supplier to focal firm misbehavior, and secondly, focuses on Brazil as an exemplar of an emerging economy. We explore how institutional voids influence supply network transparency. We focus on how voids in regulation, labor market, and contracting systems provide fruitful land for buyer misconduct and undermine supply network transparency. We review legislation in five developed countries to contrast with legislation in Brazil and we synthesize six years of Brazilian law suits regarding outsourcing issues in the apparel sector. This study exposes that voids can ease pressures allowing firms to navigate ‘below the radar’ and sustain poor working conditions along the supply network. Within this context, society has limited information availability and accessibility - what we label inhospitable accessibility (due to the regulatory void), as well as limited proportionality between real risks in the supply network and traceability of those risks back to the buying firm - what we label blurred liability (due to voids in labor market and contracting systems), thus preventing supply network transparency.